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FELICIA: IN A BIZARRE AND
BAFFLING MOVE, SOMEONE
SURGICALLY REMOVED THE DOG'S
MICROCHIP AND NOW POLICE ARE
INVESTIGATING.
INVESTIGATI REPORTER TERRI
PARKER HAS THE EXCLUSIVE STORY
TERRI: THAT'S RIGHT.
PRINCE THE COLLIE WAS LOST, N
HE'S HOME AGAIN BUT THE MYSTERY
REMAINS TONIGHT WHO SLICED OPEN
THIS DOG AND REMOVED HIS OWNER'
MICROCHI
PRINCE WAS MISSING FOR FIVE DAYS
HIS STUART HOME DURING A
THUNDERSTORM
WHEN DR. BOB FIER FINALLY GO
PRINCE BACK, HE FOUND THIS --
TWO INCISIONS.
SOMEONE SURGICALLY REMOVED
PRINCE'S MICROCHIP.
>> THEY CERTAINLY HAD A N
NOT GIVE THIS DOG BACK TO ME.
TERRI: FIER SAYS A NEIGHBOR
FOUND PRINCE A FEW HOURS AFTER
HE ESCAPED MONDAY AND TOOK HIM
TO THIS NEARVETS OFFICE.
THEY SCANNED PRINCE'S CHIP.
BUT FIER HAD NEGLECTED TO
REGISTER HIMSELF AS THE NEW
OWNER.
INSTEAD, FIER SAYS THE CHIP WAS
MYSTERIOUSLY REGISTERED TO A
FORMER VOLUNTEER AT THE RESC
AGENCY WHERE HE ADOPTED PRINCE
OVER A YEAR AGO, AND THAT FORMER
LUNTEER SENT SOMEONE TO GET
PRINCE.
SHE ADMITTED THAT TO ME ON THE
PHONE.
YOU DON'T KNOW ANYING ABOUT
HOW THIS DOG ENDED UP WITH ITS
MICROCHIP REMOVED?
AND THAT'S WHERE THE STORY GETS
MURKY.
THE FORMER VOLUNTEER CALLED FIER
AND SAID SHE HAD PRINCE T
CLAIMED HE'D ESCAPED AGAIAND
FIER SAYS SHE REFUSED TO SAY
WHERE HE ESCAPED FROM, SO HE HAD
NO IDEA WHERE TO LOOK.
>> NOT KNOWING WHAT WILL HAPPEN,
WILL I FIND A DEAD DOG?
WILL I FIND HIM AT ALL?
TERRI: FIER POSTED FLYERS AND
SEARCHED ALL WEEK AND MEANTIME A
FACEBOOK GROUP CALLED CRITTER
AT CROSSROADS WAS HEANG UP THE
INTERNET WITH THE STORY.
FRIDAY, SOMEONE RE AT PETSMART
CALLED FIER TO SAY SOMEONE ST
DUMPED A DOG HERE AND TOOK OFF
RUNNING.
IT LOOKS JUST LIKE YOUR DOG.
BUT DID YOUR DOG JUST HAVE
SURGERY?
FIER SAYS PRINCE WAS WOOZY FROM
ANESTHESIA, HAD T INCISIONS
AND NO CHIP.
>> HI, PRECIOUS.
DID YOU HAVE SURGERY AND YOU
DIDN'T LIKE IT?
TERRI: FIER FILED A REPORT WITH
THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE AND SAYS
WHILE HE'S THRILLED TO HE
PRINCE BACK, HE'S ANGRY AT WHAT
HE AND THE DOG HAVE BEEN
THROUGH.
AND THIS STORY IS NOT OVER.
ALTHOUGH PRINCE IS HEALING, HIS

Missing dog's microchip surgically removed while lost

Owner says someone was trying to keep his collie

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Updated: 11:37 AM EDT Sep 30, 2016

STUART, Fla. —

Prince the collie was missing for five days last week after escaping from his home’s screened porch during a thunderstorm. When his owner, Dr. Bob Fier finally got Prince back, he found the dog woozy from anesthesia with two stapled incisions on his upper back. Someone had surgically removed Prince’s microchip.

“They certainly had a plan to not give this dog back to me,” Fier said.

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Fier said a neighbor found Prince a few hours after he escaped Monday, and took him to a nearby veterinarian’s office. The vet scanned Prince’s chip, but Fier had neglected to register himself as the new owner.Instead, Fier said the chip was mysteriously registered to a former volunteer at the rescue agency where he adopted Prince over a year ago.That former volunteer admitted to WPBF 25 News that she got a call about Prince, and sent someone to pick him up from the vet’s.

And that’s where the story gets murky.

“She called me Monday night and left a message. When I called back Tuesday morning, she said she had good news and bad news. The good news was she picked up Prince. The bad news was he was lost again,” said Fier.

Fier said the former volunteer told him his dog escaped from her boyfriend’s yard in West Palm Beach, but Fier said she refused to say where that was, so he had no idea where to look. Fier said he was anxious and angry.

“Not knowing what will happen, will I find a dead dog? Will I find him at all?” Fier said.

Fier posted flyers and searched all week, and meantime his plight was posted on a Facebook Page called Pet Haven’s Critters at Crossroads, where angry and concerned pet lovers were weighing in.

On Friday, Fier got a call from a local PetSmart. An employee who’d seen his flyer said a woman had just shoved a collie that looked like Prince inside the store, claimed she’d found him in traffic, and took off running.

Fier raced to the store and said he found Prince woozy from anesthesia, with surgical ointment in his eyes, and two different incisions on his back.

“I think they didn’t have a chip scanner and were just doing exploratory surgery in the sites where the chips usually are,” said Fier.

Fier had filed a theft report with the Martin County Sheriff’s Office when he couldn’t get information on where Prince was. He said he is still going to follow up because someone performed surgery on his dog without permission, and he believes they were going to sell his dog once the identifying chip was removed.